The 3rd Constitution of the United States of America

Article V

Section 1

The Union proper shall consist of the District of Columbia and the states, and they shall be entitled to all full privileges and immunities among one another.

The primary political divisions of the Union shall be the District, the member states of the Union, and the territories in association with the Union. The secondary political divisions of the Union shall be counties and independent cities, but these shall exist only in the states and the territories.

Any state that enters this Union during the ratification or after the adoption of this constitution shall be ordered after the last state that joined. The order of precedence of the Union shall be as follows:

1. the District of Columbia

2. the states in order of their admission

3. the territories in order of their acquisition or creation

The current order of precedence is as follows:

1. District of Columbia

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1. Delaware

2. Pennsylvania

3. New Jersey

4. East Georgia (formerly Georgia)

5. Connecticut

6. Massachusetts

7. Maryland

8. South Carolina

9. New Hampshire

10. East Virginia (formerly Virginia)

11. New York

12. North Carolina

13. New Rhodes (formerly Rhode Island)

14. Vermont

15. Kentucky

16. Tennessee

17. Ohio

18. Louisiana

19. Indiana

20. Mississippi

21. Illinois

22. Alabama

23. Maine

24. Missouri

25. Arkansas

26. Michigan

27. Florida

28. Texas

29. Iowa

30. Wisconsin

31. California

32. Minnesota

33. Oregon

34. Kansas

35. West Virginia

36. Nevada

37. Nebraska

38. Colorado

39. North Dakota

40. South Dakota

41. Montana

42. West Georgia (formerly Washington)

43. Idaho

44. Wyoming